What are the motifs in The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama?

A reoccurring idea is ethics and science. At the very beginning of the book, the Dalai Lama pointed out that science could be used for bad or for good. It was really a state of the mind of the person who held the instrument who determined whether experimentation would have a good or bad result.